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- July 31
- July 30
- July 29
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- Someone paid $1300 for No Man's Sky and is posting gameplay footage online
- AMD Crimson 16.7.3 driver boosts performance in Rise of the Tomb Raider
- The BioWare forums are closing down forever
- Valley, the first-person exploration-adventure about life, death, and other consequences, is coming in August
- Life is Strange dev reveals new studio and Battlecrew Space Pirates, a competitive online shooter
- Ark: Survival Evolved is free to play this weekend
- Battlerite is the spiritual successor to Bloodline Champions
- Latest World of Warcraft: Legion animated short visits Khadgar and Medivh
- Emily's all-new powers reflect her different personality, says Dishonored 2 lead designer
- Capcom teases ‘Project Palm’ which might be Dragon’s Dogma-related
- Terraria: Otherworld is still happening, but it's been revamped
- Layers of Fear: Inheritance gets a trailer ahead of next week's launch
- July 28
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- Nvidia settles GTX970 false advertising lawsuit
- Doom: The Board Game brings the demonic bloodbath to your table
- Titanfall 2 multiplayer will use Azure, Google and Amazon clouds, and "bare metal" servers
- More evidence points to Karazhan as the setting for the next Hearthstone adventure
- New Doom trailer reveals the next free update and Unto the Evil DLC
- Origin undergoes major changes in latest beta update, and it's so much better now [Updated]
- Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Aura motherboard plays nice with 3D printed parts
- Yooka-Laylee's Toybox demo out now for Kickstarter backers
- This Is the Police delayed by a few days
- Original Darksiders remaster coming October with 4K support
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Knights of the Fallen Empire concludes next month
- Dota 2 Battle Pass update adds crazy new VR spectator mode
- Fan-made StarCraft Universe now in open beta
- Diablo 3 patch 2.4.2 "coming soon", will let you hide the UI
- PC Gamer Australia community event – photos
- July 27
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- Dead Rising 4 dev diary assures us that Frank West is a cool guy
- Post-apocalyptic railroad adventure The Final Station will be out in August
- Rainbow Six Siege is free to play this weekend ahead of Operation Skull Rain expansion
- Life is Strange is being made into a live-action series
- Bethesda's Prey has "no tie" with the previous game, Arkane boss says
- The creators of Burnout are working on a new driving game
- Remedy is developing the story mode for upcoming FPS CrossFire 2
- No Man's Sky Survival trailer shows how the universe is trying to kill you
- Prison Architect 2.0 update detailed in new video
- Help: The Game bundles new games from famous devs, for charity
- Here's a brief look at Rainbow Six Siege's new Favela map
- Dota 2 International 2016 breaks own prize pool record, now biggest in esports history
- Season 3 of Guild Wars 2's Living World begins
- Riptide GP: Renegade offers stunts on water-bikes, out now
- You can boot opponents from Overwatch matches with three synchronized Anas
- The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen teases new game
- Here's a new System Shock Remastered stream featuring Warren Spector
- July 26
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- Watch Dogs 2 video profiles new protagonist Marcus Holloway
- BlizzCon 2016 virtual tickets are now on sale
- Free-to-play FPS Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex—First Assault enters open beta this week
- Ana's already gotten a buff in latest Overwatch update
- Richard Garriott's MMO Shroud of the Avatar is about to be wiped for the final time
- Patriot raises speed ceiling of Viper 4 and Viper Elite DDR4 to 3,733MHz
- We Happy Few is now in Early Access on Steam and GOG
- Crucial fleshes out MX300 SSD family with new capacity options
- AMD's Solid State Graphics sports a whopping 1TB of capacity
- Civilization 6 trailer offers first look at its take on France
- Mousey stealth RPG Ghost of a Tale hits early access
- Planet Coaster hurtling towards Steam release
- Total War: Warhammer gets pile of free DLC
- Battlezone 98 Redux expands with The Red Odyssey
- Prey for the Gods slays Kickstarter goal
- Tim Sweeney thinks Microsoft will make Steam "progressively worse" with Windows 10 patches
- New details emerge on banned League of Legends team Renegades
- Starting from Batman, all Telltale games will support multiplayer
- July 25
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- Quake Champions video explains character abilities
- Ten minutes of Dual Universe gameplay revealed in new video
- Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Skull Rain goes to Brazil for two new operators
- Six years later, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is no longer a broken port
- Free "Trump Rising" DLC brings The Donald to Supreme Ruler Ultimate
- Dangerous Golf developer rules out expansions or sequels
- No Man's Sky PC release date may have been pushed back very slightly
- This Witcher 3 mod brings Dark Souls difficulty to Novigrad
- New Halo Wars 2 trailer explores story and characters
- Here's Kojima Productions' new studio trailer
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole dev diary promises more powerful farts
- Team Fortress 2 update reduces penalties for match-leaving in casual, adds vote kicking
- July 24
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- July 22
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- Gearbox details what's next for Battleborn
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer shows off the Retribution, your flying space fortress
- Human Fall Flat is a physics-based game about dreams, mysteries, and breaking stuff
- Evolve's new trapper is a mustachioed '80s throwback
- The Witcher 3 first-person mod gives gamers a Geralt's-eye view of the world
- Gears of War 4 on Windows 10 will support unlocked frame rates and 4K textures
- Overwatch Open pro tournament puts $300,000 up for grabs
- The Turing Test will question life and morality next month
- No Man's Sky trailer runs through mining and trade
- Watch Battlefield 1’s reveal trailer remade with Lego
- League of Legends teases new champion Kled
- The Walking Dead Season 3 teased with new details and screens
- World of Warcraft: Legion animated short tells the story of Gul'dan
- Nvidia unveils powerful new Titan X graphics card
- Mafia 3 live-action trailer builds "the legend of Lincoln Clay"
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare video has 12 minutes of new campaign footage
- Duelyst is the latest game to get a crate and key system
- Necropolis will be updated to address launch criticisms, devs promise
- July 21
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- Terraria 1.3.2 update adds balloons, party hats, and the "Pigronata"
- Juri is coming to Street Fighter V next week
- Terry Crews has built his PC, now he wants to go SLI
- Montezuma and the Aztecs revealed as Civilization 6 preorder bonus
- GTA 5 mod adds Red Dead Redemption-style gang hideouts
- Fallout 4’s Vault-Tec Workshop expansion adds quests and hefty design options
- Hitman’s seventh Elusive Target is live, Gary Busey must die
- Myst-like adventure puzzle game The Eyes of Ara out now
- Gears of War 4 campaign footage unites father and son
- Watch 20 minutes of Rise of the Tomb Raider’s new co-op survival mode
- July 20
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- Company claims No Man's Sky uses its patented equation without permission
- YouTuber replaces every Dark Souls 3 texture with crabs, and the results will astound you
- "Unknown probes" in Elite: Dangerous may mean the Thargoids are coming
- Battlefield 4 Naval Strike DLC is free for a week
- New No Man's Sky trailer focuses on the fighting
- Valve issues cease and desist orders to more than 20 CS:GO gambling sites
- Minecraft recreates the Great Fire of London
- Life is Strange episode 1 will be free ‘indefinitely’ as of tomorrow
- Through the Woods is a Norse horror adventure that’s out this year
- Titanfall 2 will improve matchmaking system and server hosting, says developer
- Next Hearthstone adventure to be announced on July 28
- July 19
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- Get Battleborn, plus skins and currency, for $15 in the latest Humble Bundle [Updated]
- Twitch suspends popular CSGO skin gambling streamer Phantoml0rd
- Obduction, the spiritual successor to Myst, is delayed to August
- Hearthstone "test server" code appears in latest Battle.net update
- The new Overwatch hero Ana is now live [updated]
- Seagate’s 10TB hard drives provide massive storage for your growing Steam library
- Acer feeds GeForce GTX 1080 to VR-ready Predator G1 gaming desktop
- Civilization 6 shows off China’s leader Qin Shi Huang and The Great Wall
- Kentucky Route Zero Act 4 is finally here
- Telltale Batman game release date announced, launch trailer launched
- Get XCOM 2 for half price in Green Man Gaming’s Summer Sale
- Obsidian CEO: “I’d love to turn Eternity into more like a Skyrim product”
- Original Dead Rising to haunt PC this year
- July 18
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- World of Warcraft's "pre-expansion patch" goes live tomorrow
- Minecraft: Story Mode episode seven will be out next week
- Windows 10 won't make Microsoft's predicted one billion installations by 2018
- Teaser and leak hint at new Hearthstone adventure, with Karazhan the likely theme
- Gary Busey is coming to Hitman as an Elusive Target
- RimWorld dev halts Steam key sales after "getting hammered by fraudsters"
- Dynasty Warriors spin-off Berserk gets 2016 western launch date
- Total War: Warhammer’s Call of the Beastmen expansion introduces Minotaurs
- Red Barrels launches Outlast horror comic series
- Star Wars: The Old Republic’s next expansion teased
- Killer Instinct welcomes classic boss Eyedol to Season 3
- Tekken 7 adds Bob and Master Raven to roster
- Star Wars Battlefront 'Death Star' expansion gets a trailer
- July 17
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- July 15
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- Star Citizen is free-to-fly for the next week
- Satellite Reign now has a four-player co-op multiplayer mode
- Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality revealed, coming to the HTC Vive
- What happened to CS:GO skin prices after Valve's gambling ban
- Fallout 1.5: Resurrection promises a new, old-school Fallout RPG
- Farming Simulator 17 will let you play as a woman
- Factory overclocked Asus ROG Strix RX 480 has headroom to spare
- Hitman’s sixth Elusive Target will have you seeing double
- Telltale’s Batman to launch first episode in August
- Get Bastion and Transistor with 80 percent discount this weekend
- Overcooked to serve culinary chaos come August 3
- Dragon Age: Origins, Dead Space, SimCity 3000 now available on GOG
- Grow Home sequel Grow Up gets release date
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered gets a lengthy gameplay video
- No Man's Sky trailer focuses on exploring 18 quintillion planets
- July 14
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- Sexy farming game Breeding Season, once a massive Patreon success, is cancelled
- Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair appears on Steam
- Lovely Planet Arcade, the old-school sequel to Lovely Planet, will be out next week
- The next Total War: Warhammer expansion calls up the Beastmen
- Star Wars Battlefront's upcoming Skirmish mode will enable offline play
- Actor and former NFL player Terry Crews brings celebrity muscle to PC gaming
- Here’s Civilization 6’s new art style in motion
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance trailer talks RPG systems, armour, hangovers
- Fallout Shelter sets up camp on PC
- Get the original Splinter Cell for free
- PewDiePie responds to Warner Bros. FTC complaint
- Kojima confident Death Stranding will be his “best work so far”
- Rocket League, Nidhogg, Spelunky feature in latest Humble Bundle
- Twitch clarifies its position on CS:GO skin gambling controversy
- Doom mod Chex Quest is getting a HD remake
- Twitch researcher confirms that livestreams help boost game sales
- World of Warcraft's upcoming "Silence Penalty" aims to curb abusive chat
- July 13
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- Fatshark is giving away 100,000 copies of Lead and Gold, its Wild West online shooter
- Valve says it will soon start taking action against CS:GO skin gambling sites
- Payday 2's unofficial modding tool yields its first full heist
- AOC’s 144Hz 35-inch curved gaming monitor lands in the U.S. for $600
- Double Fine's sci-fi side-scroller Headlander gets a release date and a trailer
- Razer is taking pre-orders for its $50 Abyssus V2 ambidextrous gaming mouse
- GTA 5 mod brings Pride to Los Santos
- Free Dota 2 Legion Commander comic teases new hero
- Event[0], a space adventure about befriending AI, releases this September
- Fallout 4 Vault-Tec Workshop DLC release date revealed
- Hearthstone’s new murloc shaman hero requires friends to unlock
- Replica is a detective game about privacy, investigation, moral dilemma
- Overwatch's new 21:9 support actually reduces field of view
- Sydney, come to our Overwatch round robin next week
- July 12
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- Radiator 2, a trilogy of "games about gay stuff," banned from Twitch broadcast
- Overwatch Competitive Mode will soon have a one hero per team limit
- Ana's abilities revealed: how Overwatch's new sniper will work
- Blizzard reveals the new Overwatch character, and it's not Sombra
- Oculus finally catches up on Rift pre-orders and eliminates shipping delays
- Stellaris teases incoming Plantoids Species add-on, due next month
- Second season of ECS Counter-Strike league confirmed for October
- It seems Overwatch rage quitters are still causing Skill Rank problems for players
- Worms WMD All-Stars pre-order pack has Rocket League, Payday 2, Goat Simulator cameos
- WoW Harbingers animated series to debut at San Diego Comic Con
- Indie horror Ian’s Eyes heading for Steam this summer, try its free demo
- GTA 5 Redux, an ambitious graphics mod, will launch in August
- Arma 3's major Apex expansion kicks off today, so here's a launch trailer
- Skyrim mod replaces battle music with 80s Transformers power ballads
- July 11
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- Quadrilateral Cowboy release date revealed
- Fallout 4 Unofficial Patch runs into a bug even it cannot fix
- Warner Bros. settles FTC complaint over Shadow of Mordor "influencers" campaign
- Rocket League is getting unlockable crates
- Samsung’s monster capacity 4TB 850 Evo SSD costs $1,500
- No Man’s Sky devs already working on first update
- Valve forced to rethink Team Fortress 2’s casual matchmaking
- Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod cancelled as Avalanche hires its lead developer
- Insomniac’s underwater Metroidvania Song of the Deep is out tomorrow, watch the launch trailer
- Doom's BFG is much bigger than you probably think
- Destiny comes to PC as an unofficial 2D sidescroller
- July 10
- July 9
- July 8
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- The 2016 Steam Summer Sale was a smashing success
- The sci-fi sandbox adventure Starbound will be out later this month
- Emails reveal how shady CS:GO gambling promotions are born
- AMD Crimson 16.7.1 driver puts Radeon RX 480 PCIe power draw in check
- Evolve player count jumps by 16,000 percent following free-to-play relaunch
- Rust introduces XP system
- New Overwatch hero will be revealed this month
- G2A introduces seller verification in bid to improve its image
- Team Fortress 2 matchmaking and Competitive Mode is now live
- CSGO Lotto owners sued for promoting an illegal gambling service
- July 7
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- GTA Online is getting a Trackmania-esque stunt racing mode
- Manchester City FC signs its first esports player
- No Man's Sky has gone gold
- Elite Dangerous: Arena is free for the weekend
- LawBreakers alpha testing resumes this weekend with a new map
- Overwatch Sudden Death durations tweaked in latest update
- How to beat Dishonored by stopping the empress' assassination in the intro
- GeForce 368.69 driver adds support for Dirt Rally VR
- Nvidia’s $250 GeForce GTX 1060 will battle AMD for mid-range supremacy
- UK consumers to face higher prices for PCs and other tech after Brexit vote
- Get the original Splinter Cell free as part of Ubisoft's anniversary celebrations
- Evolve Stage 2 details revealed
- Microsoft stealthily edits Xbox Play Anywhere description
- Get Trials of the Blood Dragon free for mastering the demo
- Evolve goes free-to-play, beta starts tomorrow
- Overwatch season two will remove Sudden Death in favour of ties
- July 6
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- Shadow of the Colossus-inspired game Prey for the Gods launches a Kickstarter campaign
- YouTuber owner of CS:GO betting site offers worst apology ever
- Team Fortress 2 getting Competitive Mode and matchmaking in "Meet Your Match" update
- Blizzard teases a new Overwatch character with a unique "biotic rifle"
- The Evolve website is counting down to "StageUp" [Updated]
- Nuka World will be Fallout 4's final DLC
- Update: The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition confirmed
- Esports lawyers dissect CSGO gambling in Reddit AMA
- July 5
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- Latest F1 2016 trailer features Austria's Spielberg circuit
- Call of Duty: Roman Wars was almost a thing
- Esports Integrity Coalition launches in the UK
- FIFA 17 cover player voting has begun
- A free trial version of Need for Speed is now on Origin
- Fallout 4 adds autosaves upon exiting, including for Survival mode
- Crooked cop simulator This Is the Police will be out this month
- Civilization 6 wins Game Critics Award for Best PC Game at E3
- Dated Intel code leaves Lenovo laptops and Gigabyte motherboards vulnerable
- Rain is no match for monstrous Asus ROG Ranger backpack
- Ubisoft attempts to fend off Vivendi takeover by expanding its board
- The Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod is making great progress
- Sega acquires Endless developer Amplitude
- YouTuber admits that his CS:GO skin betting videos were rigged
- Blizzard is suing the creator of an Overwatch cheat program
- July 4
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- Dark Souls 3 update nerfs the Dark Sword
- Paragon adds Weekly Quests and Victory Chests
- Gul'dan and Auriel are coming to Heroes of the Storm
- Halo Wars 2 "campaign cutscene" trailer revealed
- Dataminers unearth a wealth of new details from the Battlefield 1 alpha
- CSGO Lotto investigation uncovers colossal conflict of interest [Updated]
- Australia is getting its own Rainbow Six Siege ESL tournaments
- Scorn is a disturbing horror shooter in two parts
- Someone has beaten Dark Souls 3 without getting hit
- July 3
- July 2
- July 1
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- Fallout 4 Contraption mods add machines to butcher corpses, create Soylent Green
- Blizzard seeks new game director "to lead the Diablo series into the future"
- G.Skill adds new functionality for owners of its KM780 gaming keyboard
- XCOM 2 DLC Shen's Last Gift brings robots to an alien fight
- The Street Fighter V finals at Evo 2016 will be broadcast live on ESPN2
- Yu Suzuki posts Shenmue 3 Kickstarter anniversary update
- Zenyatta could be the next Overwatch hero to be rebalanced
- Street Fighter V's massive 'A Shadow Falls' update is live
- Steam user breaks level 1,000
